The event, which is free and open to the public, will take place in the Center for Arts & Performance Schlueter Art Gallery, 8815 W. Wisconsin Avenue, at 3:30 p.m. Copies of Beck's fourth book will be available for purchase for $20 (cash or check).

A graduate of James Madison University (M.S.) and Marquette University (Ph.D.), Prof. Beck also is the author of Soldiers, Settlers and Sioux: Fort Ridgely and the Settlement of the Minnesota River Valley;The First Sioux War: The Grattan Fight and Blue Water Creek, 1854-1856; and Inkpaduta: Dakota Leader.

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